{"id":28753,"date":"2026-01-08T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28753"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:06:12","slug":"generic-up-tempo-folk-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/generic-up-tempo-folk-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Up Tempo Folk Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
LIMELIGHTERS<\/span>\r\n \r\n [Intro]\r\n[G]<\/span> [Em]<\/span> [C]<\/span> [D7]<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n[G] This is my up-[Em]-tempo folk song\r\n[C] The one I use to [D]-start the show!\r\n[G] My up-[Em]-tempo folk song,\r\n[C] The kind every folk singer [A7] ought to [D] know!\r\n[Em] The kind that sets your [Bm] toes a tapping and [C] makes you want to sing [D7] along.\r\n[G] It's the one I stole from the[Em]  Kingston Trio\r\n[C] Generic up-[D7]-tempo folk [G] song!\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n[G]<\/span>  [D]<\/span>\r\n[Em] This is the middle of my up [D] tempo folk song\r\n[C] It's called the second [D] verse\r\n[G] You gotta sing it [Bm] warm and tender\r\n[C] To make it sound [A7] different from the [D] first.\r\n[Em] This is when I look at [Bm] all the people\r\nJust to [C] see who is a-[D7]-round\r\n[G] And if I sing the [Em] second verse softly \r\n[C] You all will usually quiet [D7] down.\r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n[Em] This is the bridge and it's really [B7] exciting\r\n[Em] It follows a different [B7] plan\r\n[Em] The purpose of the bridge is to [B7] get from the middle\r\n[A] To the beginning of the [D] end!\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n[G] This is my up [Em] tempo folk song\r\n[C] The end is drawing [D] near\r\n[G] And by now you're so gosh-darn [Em] excited\r\n[C] You want to stand right [D] up and cheer!\r\n[C] So lets say \"hurray\" for our [A7] folk [D] survivors\r\n[Em] May they sing forever [Bm] strong!\r\nAnd [Em] for the land of the [Bm] brave and free\r\n[C] Generic up [D7] tempo folk [G] song!\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[G]  [Em]  [C]  [D7] - - - [G]  [Em]  [C]  [D7]\r\n \r\n[Outro]\r\n[G] So lets say \"hurray\" for our [Em] folk survivors\r\n[C] May they sing forever [D7] strong\r\n[G] May they shed a tear\r\nEach [Em] time they [C] hear\r\nA [C] Generic up [D] tempo folk [G] song! \r\nA [C] Generic\r\nup [D] tempo\r\n[G] folk song!<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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LIMELIGHTERS [Intro] [G] [Em] [C] [D7] [Verse] [G] This is my up-[Em]-tempo folk song [C] The one I use to [D]-start the show! [G] My up-[Em]-tempo folk song, [C] The kind every folk singer [A7] ought to [D] know! [Em] The kind that sets your [Bm] toes a tapping and … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGeneric Up Tempo Folk Song<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29689,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753\/revisions\/29689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}